Emilio Falla , atleta glorioso en BMX de Ecuador con muchas aventuras para compartir.

0:02 Or Ridenshrady, Das Graves and BSS. Thank you, hello. How you are welcome to the first BMX podcast in Spanish, the Alejo Vargas Show BMX Podcast. This episode recorded today from somewhere in California in the United States. Thank the sponsors, our sponsors, Platinum Gol and Silver in Platinum wo bm X Club Silver, Paldway Podcast Network and also Capital BMX, which makes it impossible for this episode of podcast to reach many ears in Colombia and Latiname.

1:00 Today I have a very special guest, also because it is from a brother country of Colombia. He' s a top- level runner. He has always been at the best events in the world of BMX, many years dedicated to this sport. It is from the brotherly country of Ecuador, where today Ecuador has great talents that come in development, adding, training clues. Let us remember that a while ago it was the Pan- American in Rio Bamba in Ecuador and Bueno cinema much preamble. Don' t forget to share on your social networks. Every time we have a new episode of the first BMX podcast in Spanish, five consecutive years more than seventy episodes published. I am Alejo Vargas and welcome Emilio. Miss, hello, Emilio, how are you?

1:49 Hello, Alejo. Thank you so much for the opportunity, great to have you here in California and not happy to be able to chat with you and all the listeners who are always listening to you for a while. Thank you very much, thank you, Emilio, well let' s start talking. Time is gold, but there are many things to talk to Emilio miss emilio. Let' s say that in a summary aside, how good it has been, how was your beginnings in the bm wantera we will talk about everything that you achieved and everything that you are today, how were those good beginnings. I started vicycling it' s very small. My dad worked at the head of the PICE and visicus at the time. From what he says.

2:32 I' m the third of all. I' m my daddy' s last son, a kid who said I was super creative, very active. So one day my mom took him to say that she was already tired of how she was where she was. That day, my dad closed the office and took me to see how they trained in front and nothing. I fell in love with sport. I told him I want to have a bike. I bought a bike for Christmas and I told him I wanted to start being bicycle X when I was big. So I told him I wanted to be big at the time, and that' s what I started getting involved in the BMX from the beginning very, very, very recently what I remember. When we started from Ecuador I didn' t have very big expolements, but so far I remember that my first international event that my dad took me to Caracas at that time, Santiago Silva was already world champion and they had Santiago Duque as well. If I' m not mistaken, and they' re the ones who approached my dad your son. It is very good and you should buy a better bike, because it has a chrome bike that made me Ecuador, drilled with a lot of holes to relieve it and there they bought me my first bike light all titanium, because I think they also ran with something. So they gave him the idea and then, step forward, I arrived and won the world chapter. And that' s where I think that little bug always stayed to go to the world championships and I always say that having been a world champion so early was what kept me very active always because that was my goal. Every year I was growing online, seven eight years, and so on. How many times Emilio world champion, in what

4:05 years, where he went, where you were world champion, in which countries, in which worlds. Before talking a little bit about the elite category, the professional category, well, the only version of the world. It was my first World Cup and then it was my goal. All the times I stayed now I am six times eighth in the world of fifty passed right now in this world all five times I fell in the world and was one of the most frustrating things than twice, sixth, one fourth. So yes, it was an era, an era, an era, a Let' s say an athlete who almost always came to the finals, but I was never given the world contract again, because I almost always was or wanted to win or wanted to be last. And I almost always fell because I wasn' t a kid who was going to look for the doublew at the time, but I was just going to try to win again. So I think that was the subject of my head always how it worked and I was going super sad at that one moment, what I tell everyone was the hate that the sport would tell him. As soon as he was tied up that he was adopted in the world and he was thrown out of it, my dad' s anger, who was the closest person he was traveling with, came in.

5:09 I was telling him that because I hate this sport, because I' m doing about 20 minutes of that day, you' re abels that I mean to come back worldwide. So I think that part when people tell me what' s done for a long time and I say yes, because one had a very, very, very successful dad in how to handle a child who was very good, he' s small and as he never impressed me in things it was always me, but also the fact that things were not always given to me as I always wanted being that I had to go and fight them and it was always like the next, next time back And now that I see him, at that time he said I didn' t win the World Cup and I ran with people like Team Castro who won five times. Not my category and I saw and said but in the Pan American I won. But, well, that' s how I won then, but I always did. Now, as I see, all the boys come looking for a double time. It is a very big goal and for some it is very difficult to sing. But at that time, when I was going to run, it was like something I felt assured that I was going to grab a double w And if it wasn' t the one, it was like it wasn' t serving me no, but as time has changed and as I see it now, it' s a successful sports career in what was the whole amateur stage. For me person apart, he won a lot of pan- Americans. It was I think I won seven consecutive American champions in total that I have like nine or ten Pan American championships in the junior category. Also on the medaller I also have two pan- American medals of one of bronze platidos in elite. Then not the truth. I' ve run a lot of time, but more than anything, as I say,

6:43 it always keeps me involved because I had a great guide, which was my dad, that there was never a pressure, but it was always more than everything, because I wanted to stay in this sport that was what passionate me from Chiquita Wow. We could talk hours and hours about the career of Emilio Falla, brother of Ecuador, brother of the Colombians and who now sees the BMX from a position. I think more interesting with all the experience, with all the knowledge acquired during so many years of racing. Today we went to lunch, because it is precisely his birthday that makes it more special even I didn' t know I heard about this morning when we were having lunch.

7:27 Emilio was telling me about his latest coach experience. He was telling me that he is passionate about being a coach and that he had a nice experience a while ago in the Pan- Americans, in Ecuador, in Rio Bamba. How was that experience now, as they say, to see the bulls from the barrier and to see a triumph of a boy, of a student with whom he follows sports. Well, as I was telling you, it was super special because when I started working with the two thousand and twenty, it was a boy, he' s chubby. No, so he taught her how to feed her and change a lot of things and he decided to trust me, obviously, and stay here in California. So it' s someone we say is my first pupil that I' ve been molding into that we tried a lot of things and that for a whole year we were given.

8:18 We weren' t given anything. Not sometimes for lack of result, sometimes also for injuries, sometimes for a little lack of race that I think is indisputably something very important to put in the categories Championship you have to be in the play, but it is very difficult to get to an event and not be but he, he I asked him just the year before the pueroamerican, I told him to stay here until the preseason. Pass Christmas, pass New Year. I did that when I left for my first Olympic Games, decided to take everything away and stay in Switzerland. He' ll be there. I don' t remember the twenty- five di was always making picks on the velodrome that I never did in Ecuador, but I said I have to do this in order to reach this goal that Kerrange and I told him to give me that opportunity, stay here that Christmas happens to you with me, passes New Year and he rose incredibly. Then I remember. When the year began, I had told him my dad and my son how to do it.

9:03 Dad always called me and I tell him if you all give it to him, everyone' s gonna win porpoamerican, but you know how MX' s BMX is. It' s a sport that you need some luck on that day and sometimes, because he' s faster and they give you things, he came out and everything' s lined up he doesn' t think there' s anyone who beats him. So that we went around in February a race and it ends up falling and the cross ligament is damaged. So for me it was a bullet, a cold one, because I said it was over all year when they said maybe she had to have surgery. I had a lot of expectation of him in that year and at the end he was already going to go when again I tell him not to wait here let ' s talk with tospician and see if there is how to rehabilitate you here Robella we find of physiotherapist and they were able to rehabilitate him in an incredible way of raplio and came back and then, well to see if I wouldn ' t say, I traveled right for this event and I many times more than I trained them sometimes for important events and I stay here this time.

9:56 They all organized with the athletes that I train, that go, that accompany them and that is that week in Ecuador. So having lived that experience is, as I say, one much more nervousness. He gets more nervous than when you' re going to run, that' s more than anything. Also when they' re running in a super game I think you know everything that can happen in blows, injuries, falls and you see everything much tighter when you' re there running. You' re in control, but when you see everything far away, you' re all a lot tighter. The cías sounds the tires. So that day, just that week, he even got sick. Then I remember they said it couldn' t be that base. I mean, she was sick. We were in the hospital, they had to give him a lot of medicine. He hit migdalitis. But, well, he had what' s important to the vision he had. He had a long time visualized what camel was going to win you in training.

10:48 He had bought a shirt with the number one basketball and I remember that you had shoes in it, with this boxer. He had very, very recorded this then I think what the mind sees at the end of everything general and makes it reality. Not then he had this and I, as a coach, had a lot, a lot of faith in that. But at the end of that, I also said again that many things can change on that day. One of those was what got sick. I didn' t know if I was gonna be able to last a whole day in a high- altitude race, since he had prepared himself in California, that we weren' t in height. So when the day began I saw it progressed and each time it advanced and already when it won the semifinal, I said well, I lack only finale and I had never been so I had never seen it.

11:28 Also not so focused. He came out when he doubled the first cure. First, that' s me, the first thing I think about is how it comes out, that' s like it' s going away, it' s not going back, it' s not going back, it didn' t go wrong, it made a perfect turn. Just think that in the last corner jelse Andrade of Colombia almost gets into it and gives it a nudge and could not do anything and then it was when wake happened that I ran out to make the bottle. It was the first one to give a hug, because I think, as an athlete, it was a lot of defeats and the most amazing thing about this guy, above all, was that he never let himself be defeated. It was always like at the time I said how much more than everything I' m teasing with injuries, because one thing is bad results than other things, some injuries of the athlete. I say it very much because you say again, you confess me again not to find this one by then he had many repetitive things and I said at some point more to say it no more and I would not have expected myself, but I had many all my follow. Then the fact that in that year, when he passed the orody, has come to win with American.

12:24 So there' s the only thing that didn' t summon him from the selection. He did it in front of his dad, who had to have been sick last year. Then he went in front of his whole family, His mom, there was his grandmother, his brothers, my parents came to see me as a new role, let' s say, not sports, but as a coach. It was something incredible I, as I mean, it came out to tears because they were saying, it' s seeing him realize a boy, a dream that I tell him I don' t know how many more of those moments he' ll have, but that' s what I' m saying is one of the most important I' ve ever seen and I' m telling you essential price. Not there because I have other hits. Great achievements have been made, but I couldn' t be there because I see it from afar, so I' m all far from there. I mean, I guess it happens to all the jobs that are there all the time in all their careers. Not the pride you feel and happiness. So it' s been something I think that' s what I told you that many times for us athletes, when we' re so involved in the sport and when we turn the page, we don' t have this adrenaline or this thing that we don' t know what' s going to happen. And what I felt that day, let' s say, is that, like, it keeps you alive still being a coach for one of these guys who are in high performance and everything keeps you as yet because I have an indescribable experience, because besides it' s a lot of work and things that you might not do and you want to correct so that they don' t get it wrong, like maybe you were wrong at some point in your sports career. Then guide them from the topic of how to get sponsorships, what to do where to train, and not only with training, but many times how to guide them in the mental part and how the challenges

13:58 they will encounter day by day in their sports career. Emmy, you just touched on a theme, because this is learning. Every time a person comes to share their experience on podcast, you learn new things and this is a question that arises and I am sure that many Elite riders will do it or will continue to do it. But what you' re counting on, you ' ve already moved on. Now you' re still competing, you' re teaching how to make an elite understand when it' s time to look for another future in the BMX race. I feel that some like it was over and there ended the relationship with the BMX, but in this case Emilio fails from Ecuador. Now keep competing, now it' s in bet pro How it' s done to assimilate is or, how it' s done to find that americ answers. I think it' s hard. I think first of all, when we talk about it, when I was at the MIMAX, I would never have thought I would have participated in a cleanup.

15:11 I didn' t then when we started at the BMX, the BMX wasn ' t Olympic. Here. I remember one day my mommy gave me a gift when I raised the most Olympics from a job I had done in English at school, saying that I wanted to be a very young man and win the car and that we were already diverted. I didn' t do this and I have it in my house, okay, but I don' t know if I would have wanted to go back to the state I had of meaning, to think so I was saying in the BMX or some other sport, because the BMX wasn' t even close to being Olympic at the time. So I think that when you classified the Olympic Games, you get to such a high stage of LACSPI let' s say you' re Olympic that sometimes you say what else there is, what more day obviously, there are the medalists that, obviously, like Maris and Mariana, who also seems to say that more, what more there is after this, but for me I think I' ve always been, I' ve always been very believer and I' ve always said that as long as they give an open door, that it hasn' t been closed. Not all of it, because I ' m not going to tell you that many times my sports career could have been closed. And it happens to so many who may already see that things get difficult and if not, I' m going to put these other things on. But maybe not. I did say there' s always one thing, if it was an open door. And I' m still going to continue in this sport because I feel that each person is born with a gift and I believe faithfully that my gift was this that I was born, since I was very good at this, in the sport, yes, but in what I got involved in this and as I started closing my sports career,

16:41 I started training guys, so I said, how is that not going to be one of my something that I can teach and maybe create or generate a lot more talent than the idea is that they are ten times better than I did and that they can win a lot more things. But why. Because I was the pioneer, I feel like I could have done a lot better, but since I was the first one, you' re wrong, you ' re broken, so it comes in the part of me. How can I help them so that that doesn' t happen to them? Many times I tell them. I would have wanted my dad to tell me at the age of twenty- one in the United States, after the Olympics, don ' t stay here in Ecuador, because there was nothing in Ecuador. Or that I tell them I tell them now, that is, to be here in the United States. A lot of people do. Here' s the kill, which is a very high level. Here are the brands of BMX that can continue to support them. I didn' t see that, but I don' t think maybe it wasn' t because someone had to tell me what he was like first. I didn' t have it. So here' s the thing about what you' re talking about about the sports thing, too. I never started running in bet pro but I spent my last career, my last years of career in it and from here I come here America and I see the race that is what it was like to watch the b proks run in that year and people expect that they were more popular than the elites. And there it is, as I say I did say I was never going to be pro but if I become prollo or here in America, because the category is very popular and because I enter, more people enter and now you see. I really think that in this World Cup, unfortunately they were cancelled in all three hands, but this World Cup, the level of category that was on Masters was incredible. Everyone who came back and

18:14 I think all the people were left wanting to see who was coming to the final and in that final, who was going to win. Actually, if we were all going to fall into the first cure, what was going to happen until I was left with more than 8th in the world and I say wow was that to be octaed the world, at least falling into the first clearing and seeing where it was. Not then. That' s the part where I, when I decided to go to America and I said if I do it, I do it here and I fell in love with the sport a lot more. And that I can do to UI of BMX, because the way they still make us felt professional and especially people enjoy much more of our career by how we give ourselves. I know a time, elbows the falls, everything there are, because they are ex exponents of the category pro that was very good and we still walk very well. I mean, I ' m not saying that we can still do things very well, but that ' s the part of what' s sporty and good, talking about still being involved in the industry, having had the opportunity to get into a company and keep working and generate a little more learning from something. Maybe again let ' s say it like that, because it was my first job. Let ' s say what I' m saying here now. So I' m not gonna tell you that I was nervous the first day that this office thing and I said good I' m gonna work for the first time in my life. I already had them, no, but in my entire life I dedicated myself to Luis y gross But that' s a very good job, totally. But if it' s a job, a full- time job, it' s more full- time, more difficult than another. Why, because I tell everyone you' re thinking how many hours, you sleep, what you' re eating, how much you hydrate, if you' re getting tired, if you gave it, it' s full time.

19:42 It' s seven days a week. It' s not like an office of eight or five after five o' clock in the afternoon. You can and he can throw you on a couch if he wants to. It' s not all the time, but sometimes you have the doubt that if there was, because of course I know so and I' ve gone very well, I went very well learned a lot. I am in a position that I like and above all, what I say is that I am still very blessed, thankful is that I am still involved in the industry of what I think I know not when I say something that, for example, someone can see good enemy. What he' s still doing is still in this. Well, obviously he runs people and he' s also in this, in the company, in this position, in what' s BMX. At some point I think I have to take some of that off, because time is super short for me. Having three kids is crazy. Sometimes I don' t have the time is minimal for me. Then I' ve been full since sometimes the boys are here. I have to go train with them.

20:33 Then I' ll move you to the office. After we' re done with this. I' m going to go to the track and BC and Cross, so I' ll be back late. Right now, my family isn' t here, but if I get there, take nine and something tonight and I have to get to do something, then I think at some point, but if you would tell me to take it off, I think at some point. My career, for Uncle has to end, not because the abed pro la Marster has to be competitive and you have to train. It' s not a category that you say is not going to train for two weeks and I' m going to remember is all the coaches clear, maybe that would be one of the first things that would eliminate it. But being a coach is something that I, if I wanted to stay still ok two questions. Emilio, well, you say, suddenly I wouldn' t run anymore. Then bet pro would be the first thing I' d remove.

21:17 But what if that category begins to get one that ends and begins to get what I know a Doud, start to arrive some characters that suddenly you are. Well, or the mosquito that ran it. Well, and all this, all those runners who were glories in their country, just like you. What happens suddenly you say no, I can' t get out of there. I have to keep fighting, keep running good. I' ll tell you what I thought this was. I wanted it to be my last world, like last year, that third and last year I went and had prepared to go win it. Yeah, I felt great, I was leading almost every turn. If I had won it, I don' t know, but at least I feel like in the final there was so much in the first three places of the first provity and I say or go out first again I fell. But now, obviously, what you tell me does fit me and everyone tells me you have to go next year. You have to finish the garrantis that in the final and I have started to think that I have seen to that what I have about the BIS and I have started to think that he knows that. He would be much more cool because, for example, this World Cup, all the people who climbed up I remember.

22:26 My first sleeve I was seeing had not made an exit with Killin I was in a good time was there. A few more there fell Kimilani, who ran on it and he won the cruise. We were in a super hard sleeve at times. I made it through. Then he said good. I ' m fine, the follower was coming back to the front too, and the last one, which was Barry, was warming up and also coming out. Then I felt like I was ready and I felt. I feel what I think if I do the World Cup next year would be the last, the last on the subject of what is the bet pro or the master' s degree. Let' s say by the subject that I think what I was saying is, I' m touching you with my OPAs transition in this race to this category. I said I' m not going to train anymore and I got to the first race almost continues to train and I wasn' t, I mean, I was third but I wasn' t trained.

23:14 Yes, of course, then I say I train enough to beat the winner, Ahorita, and it has touched me, that is, and I see every time that the theory here of sweat, Ahorita, is not getting easier than thirty or thirty- one. It gets harder and harder. So it ' s cool, obviously, but you have a pretty good idea if you could give yourself a little more time in your life. This is something that maybe would be the first thing you' ve been doing that you had to get out of your routine to have time to maybe train them to go to work and have time with my family. I lost with everything, but it ' s something I' m going to bring a lot, that is you tell my mingo, I' m going to spit, I' m going to miss. I hope that if I go to the World Cup next year, or when I end this year that I have a few meters established that I know that, like everything, it is difficult to have spent the third in the United States capato, my goal is to earn me a rap and give some damage that children had had. I' d like to have in my house ok and after that, next year, see how it all goes.

24:15 But maybe he' ll point a lot at the World Cup and end up running around the United States and then maybe close the sports leg. I think I do, yes, that would be ok wow, a lot of learning, boys learn, learn from VMEX, which is a profession, it ' s a life style. Well, what' s up? Yes, tomorrow they pick up the phone and call Emilio from Ecuador or from some Latin American country and tell him we are looking for a coach, a coach. What feelings there are, Emilio, what would happen. How you see it, because you say you' re passionate about teaching them now. What would happen? And well, when we talk and he calls me, if he calls me cortixe, he has to be with the right managers. I don ' t think I mean let me work on what the kids need and, above all, change their whole way of work. One hundred and always say that the selection needs a leader. I was talking to you. I think Colombia is successful, because I have a leader a lot of time ago.

25:26 The kids have to have someone they believe in, who they respect, who they believe in, in all their knowledge, so they would, they would. I don' t think they had any problems with the IRA. I don' t think I' ll give myself to Ecuador again. I think my family, my children, I like the theme of being here in the United States, but it would accompany us at the events and have to go down for certain selectives or for some concentrates. I wouldn' t have any problem and any selection would also be the same, because I' m passionate and I think that everything we' ve done in that of all the great legends that if you get to see when right now I was in the World Cup or in the world antero and er was recording with iPad. It' s a lot of people that happened all my life. What they' re leading every selection is ex- runners of my cam. And everything that' s on top of that, they' re runners because it gives ged Group, Baby Graph or more to read the branded clous that, even though it hasn' t been so well known, was selected elite. The rs of Holland. They' re all in Holland there. There' s Jaspers, there' s the one who was Winnerberg' s first band, which was the first Olympics. There' s Tuan with the Uzi Lean Phillips. Well, there' s Mat Cameron, which is from New Zealand. He' s raised a lot of new Zealand. Yeah, yeah, yeah, new do chitan new zelantes have the girl qualified right now. The women' s cleaners have the rich Bieiman and they have the one that still doesn' t define whether it' s rich or going to go makbias, but they' ve defined it. But I think it' s hill humi tending between the

27:00 two So yes, it' s like seeing people that I competed with and not me, as I say to them, I don' t know if it' s all, because what you' re going to give them a sports part in training, but it' s more than everyone in those moments of how to guide them in what they, who else is going to feel what you feel like doing in that super cross party, the uncertainty, the preparation, the way of thinking, the way of leading a triumph, a defeat. I always tell them. They will learn much more from defeats than triumphs. This will always signal much more life, logistics. He also manages the language. Also understand that if tomorrow open the climate that I sometimes tell you, you have to open clin and they were going if it' s going to rain, if it' s going to rain, go buy things for the rain, to dry the tires, because there are times that tell me that they didn' t bring anything in a glass of the world and arrive I didn' t see and they were like this. I mean, they have all that preparation like an athlete thinks and says he doesn' t hear what it' s like to be something to be, to be ready.

27:51 So I think that' s something that' s why the other legion are doing great and I think I would. I would do it as I told you, but it has to be under the right concepts, with the right directive that, as I let you work so that we don' t only have one selected, not being enough. The thing is, at first it' s a team. That' s for more than the individual BMX, but it qualified as a team at the end of the day emilio. As it is the experience of some Olympics, as it was participating in the Olympics, Well, the first Olympics, I was a dream actually made like or chass, but I was telling you that I was twenty- one years old and everything I think mentally or if collegiately, I wasn' t prepared for I mean. I was impressed by the fact of the food courtyard, the size of the Olympic village, the first time I had touched the track, which crossed as how many people were watching me run hordía, I mean, very mature, very mature, psychologically I shouted it, I enjoyed it, but I also knew that when I went to that first Olympic Games, even though I ran very well, that I was going to be in the next one for something in my life I said, that is, it doesn ' t matter, it' s four years in the most and for top for London, I classified much more mature. Psychologically I was going to go I was going to work and I already knew what I was going to introduce myself to. He knew how the program had or contained an Ion NBD.

29:14 He can' t sleep much of how nervous he was that day for the first time in my life. I think I almost didn' t get breakfast because I had so much. I mean, I' ve never gotten over that, but it' s like I' ve been in your instance, like I got big on this topic Maybe I didn' t work with a psychologist at the time when I' m busy or not. He couldn' t guide me then, but he taught me a lot of learning to know what I was going to introduce myself to after four years. Then, the next time I was very quiet, I knew how it worked, everything slept well with my good and everything was standing, but unfortunately I hurt myself in the second hit that in the first hit third, in the second or in the second recess he got in, he stopped his shoulder and I was blamed and I broke leaguely crossed and practically there ended everything. And that was the time, that was a moment with more than one wait four years. I tell him everyone you' ll give it to yourself an incredible classification since they summon you and it' s like you' re watching, ha that you ' re in friends or that you' re training like you don' t care how much you train, you train like a demon, that is, you don' t care, that is, you do everything the day of the race comes and the day of the wagon. I' m not going to shut you up if you have to die that day, because you' ve been preparing for so long. As a matter of fact, there are so many streets, because no one gives an inch because it' s that day. There' s no tomorrow, that' s what I always thought, that is, there' s no tomorrow, there' s tomorrow, there' s no tomorrow, that' s what I expected then when it ' s over and you don' t go as you want, because you have to be honest to those who are the medalists are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the more than being the sixth seventh taban in the cleaned up. If you' re a finalist, but it ' s not the same thing that he psychologged the medal and went and stayed

30:45 before it' s even more difficult and I think that after the first of nondes, in the darkest moments of my uncle' s career, because literally at that time I didn' t even know if I wanted to keep doing bikes, apart from being injured, I said four more years. Sorting is quite stress on the whole, the situation, your pointwood, two events, etcetera. That one, if it went well, others didn' t work out for you how they' re moving out of all positions. So I think it' s just as much as it is at that moment you see it at that moment as a person and it says ah already well, I came and participated and it didn' t go as I wanted and you go with a feeling of sadness to be able to judge as I see that stage, I say you have to be realistic. One percent of the people who talk about this puerte are going to be Olympic and the rest of the ninety - nine percent are never going to run into a cleanup or have been able to perform two Olympics. Let' s say three as alternate. Not much they can say that, but as I was telling you as a little boy, he was super hard on me. No. But now, as I see it, because that was me with me and I would have wanted to be able to tell that child not to be so hard on him. And that' s what I' m trying to help them now is to tell them look, don' t get that way, there' s gonna be another race. I' ll catch up with this thing that' s gonna be another year, there' s gonna be another weekend. You can' t, like, explain to me my dad, don' t run out before now,' cause it was over and it wasn' t over, I mean, literally for the race. And if I didn' t do well, I was very, very, very helpless or anything, but I was very peossimistic about myself. I think that' s the part where I come in and sometimes I try to talk to them. It' s hard to find the right words to take away someone. But if something that well

32:16 and tells you someone has lived bad or difficult moments or strong, because where it will hear easier it is different that it comes to someone who has never experienced it. So that' s important. Emilio, how to get out of a moment of darkness, how do you know of a moment of darkness in the sport, of an injury, of a race where you had many expectations and did not pass what you wanted to pass, because there are so many variables that are at stake. How can you get out of the dark? When not a child, a big one, an oll school, a novi is an expert, an elite, darkness is the same for everyone.

32:57 Like how, how you can get out of that. It is what your management is from the heart and based on your professional career, because you are a professional of bmax in all the sense of the word to do. I believe that what I always did first Council never take a decision at that time of carature or image, not that it is how better advice. It gives me my dad tells me anything you said tell me in two weeks, when you' re calmer, when you' re calmer, because it' s hard to finish the race until you got on that plane you leave, on the plane still thinking about what would have happened, otherwise I did this, what had happened until I got there. That you go with that the good thing sometimes that I say to everyone don' t stay, because a lot of people pick up and say I' m going to give the TIMOF and the timemoba Sometimes it' s good for some people, but the time OF also takes away a lot of their goals. I say, like, give them a week' s time, two weeks. And if there' s a race that' s important, then run again, because that' s what' s cool about this sport, that the time you come and you know that to see another race for more than you' re still a little sad about what happened. He' s gonna do you that week, prescribe you and start over and say good. I have to focus on this thing some things that I think helped me when we had talked about the world chapter, which now I had almost all the guys I had went wrong and it was difficult for them. I got one that doesn' t want to hit bicy for two months. No, and that' s where another one came from, like Christian, who' s here and everything, no matter how

34:29 hard it is. Everything came and said I have to have it. They ' re young, they' re young. They have and then when I catch them I tell them to look at me I can tell you how many times they don' t teach me things and my mom and I think I ' m wrong. No, I' m not bad. Life goes on. I have a beautiful family. I was involved in the sport, I enjoyed it, I enjoyed it and in that time you think and say already that I don' t mean if you see sometimes you think that all the great ones that you see and say ah if they won union of see, because you never know when you see the story of Converfield, that I was talking about that when I was po, because you fute taste of peddle, lost, lost out and freshen up their statues as big and it starts to be good to be who the person was another doctor and seems like the best example that now taught Nikiman, who was someone who was Olympic champion. And I think Ahorita just posted when she sent in Tulsa, which took two years to win an event again, someone who always won. Imagine for someone who won always can' t There are times that didn' t even go into the finals. Already then I believe that yesterday I heard a speech that justly retorted faith that the true champion of who knows comic and who is for the long road, not only for the short road, but to move forward and keep fighting. Its net is levada da i e. I say that life is not made for navida us to go out to all the world and no one will give you this silver mandeja silver or it will touch to work, but that you will be given. I don' t know if ten times as many or fifteen, but that time you' re going to give, you' re going to eliminate all the bad guys less than I left completely safe. This thing Emilio just shared. It' s a little bit if

36:01 we bring him to virtue. It' s a little resilience, it' s sincerity, it' s honesty, that respect, that love, that stoicism. If you want to know what it' s about, stoic look for it so you can understand what it' s about. That' s what I just said and that' s what Emilio just said and what he just said here. We' re talking about BMX, of course, in the podcast, but we' re talking about building, helping new generations. From the perspective of a professional like Emilio, from the perspective of what I do enjoying riding my bikeng daring to make a podcast content that is already five years old, creating networking because the BMX told me in the North Carolina World Cup, where I stayed in eighths of the end, but I felt I had never been scored at the end of the World Cup. For me it was as if I had won one among the staff. I' ve never won a manga in a World Cup before. I won a manga in a World Cup, so for me it' s as if he' s earned twice as much. You probably have to work and keep working, but I ' m doing it for fun. Emilio. Okay. Let' s talk about the Olympics. Let' s talk about the Olympics. What runners you like with that smell you have. What runners you see, What runners Personally you' d like to see in the finals how you think those semifinals are

37:34 going to be. We were just talking about it in the car today We saw it talking because it' s still missing. I think there' s a lack of America that defines who' s going. I think so. I' m sure you' re about to define the others. Everyone there, I think in Germany, for defining my men and women. If you didn' t turn me to talk about women, I' m a big fan of Mariano. As I always tell her she' s the one that ' s going to be very difficult to find someone like her in the BMX, in everything she' s done, in everything she represents, in so many titles she' s got, it' s unquestionably the best that exists for a long time. I' d love to see her get a medal.

38:15 Or I' d love to. I know it' s hard, but I think I always said myself in sport, in sport, this is what the sport does, because when you see the sport is unpredictable, sometimes not then I would love to see her taking a medal. I know there ' s a lot of them now. One of the things I most appreciate and watch women' s careers, because when the BMX started, let' s say super Cross, there was a level where there were very few who did. And now it' s amazing. There' s sleeves with your beads. You say how hard it is or sleeves already before them you say there' s only one or two. Yes, now it' s one thing and how they progress by skipping the section, pro doing them a lot of things that I didn' t do before. Then I' d think I' d like Mariana obviously to do well, or I know her pretty well. He' s walking very well, very well, very well.

39:02 They' ve seen we' ve got how many hits they' re giving very, very, very well. She' s young too so they have it a lot of level in women, but I think they two. I ' d love to be able to see two of them in the finals. I know Bettan was sure to be in the finals? I know that Saya ' s gonna be in the finals? Alice I think it' s gonna be in the finals? Soulthers some to see Sometimes I don' t know which one' s better between the two, but I look great to the other girl he classified. It' s been very constant, ok it' s been very constant and it' s called how else, not incredible, very constant it comes right in with mac Cameron, New Zealand coach. Switzerland is so classy. He' s gonna do great with that lead. It ' s also a clue, that is, it' s a clue to someone who for a woman who knows how to handle the BICI very well has to jump trips, they have to jump double manual. It is a clue of the most complex that I have seen for women or what I saw in the testivent I saw that in that testive in Betan and Ga not so I would tell you, that means that I saw Gaby very well the testivent looked very good that the tire was lowered, but it came as third or fourth mariana. I think that also because of the subject of the Marianna is very natural with the handling of bicycles. Then I think that' s why it ' s also going to if it' s on its way out. And it' s the subject she was at the Olympics. The Olympics have a lot of nerves and many new women arriving for the first time and she has

40:36 that coldness of knowing. There is no one who can earn more medals than she already knows what it is to do in women in men. I believe faithfully that on paper the fastest is magic. In the World Cup he showed it I think a visa came from before Joris and Joris, when he got it not expected that more hui stays outside. But if you tell me who looks physically faster and they' re running on their track, because Mahiu, I think it' s going to be someone who' s going to go with a very clear goal and goal. Last year of the C' s four years ago came to the end as well, but did not win a medal. But the team, the three French, I think if they' re not there, even if they' re in the same semifinal, I think they' re going in. I don' t see him for anything, like a blow, a bring- in of something of this would have to do with them not coming in if they see neither imagiu, nor yores in an ending, as they did four years ago in another pisco. I think that' s what they' re always gonna do. I' m always gonna put Carlos on. Carlos are for me besides great friend. I think he' s someone who, as much as the day gets up with a fever with what he' s already going to fight everything and he' s going to look for a way to do it and the cold head he ' s got. I think that we were great for a day under a great team. Diego is very complete. Diego has a first straight and everything, but lately I know he was hit. But sometimes it' s like if he' s that day he' s in, it' s amazing he comes out and he can beat everyone the best, the fastest. But I think Carlitos has these last four good cars since the Pulsa World Cups that made the final the two days and at the end Capatu World, because it gives you what you are facing. I think Alfredo looks good too. I

42:07 ' d think Alfredo would go into the finals. That' s where three hundred s can six, and that' s where an American has to put it. I know buo' s got his bood going with an injury to what he' s got. He has to go back to operating, but if nothing happens and you all know he' s got a level, he ' s got a good head, he' s got everything going seven kin Shiman Kiman Kiman is for me one of the people who can win the medal too. It' s a short lead. So something that I got along very well with him and when he was here in California, he was trying to look for quick partyers because he has the problem of reaction after him. So he' s got an extra march that everyone seems to me if it was the Visicros as old school, which just pedaled before him. He' ll win them over, but with a lot he' s got an incredible leg speed, so, but the eight' s gonna be tough on him.

42:54 So he knows that back in France, if he wants to do anything, he has to be in the lanes inside. That' s why you were gan from the lane into life. So he thinks he' s got that in his mind of power and winning from the race inside. I don ' t know if I see him outside, but I think he' s in a great moment. That' s what I know I don' t know if I' ve thrown all eight of them, but I think they ' re somebody I think they' re the ones that fit me most in the head, that come with a good time and what they want. What was that clue my Kiman was asking about? What was that track in California, where there was a matcher for him, for him, so fast, yes, yes, the fastest one in Sandiez, yes, the worst part, the rarest, very, very fast. And now I have videos until they found or had a taste and taste until the white line. My half - bishop comes up with something and after that it happens to him, it happens to him in two pieces, it happens to him with half a visio.

43:49 It' s amazing what you read. But if you start reading the World Cup, the Nikymon Barkore World Cup the fastest reaction down to the bottom, that is, he almost never won a World Cup two nascos, he doesn' t come out as the fastest reaction right now in Rockill. It came out as the fastest reaction of the eight. He had a Joris bike, but he was talking to Maris. It' s true he has a bike. But if I was in five, I' d have gone out maybe a vis and a half and I wouldn' t have passed you tears. So what Maris and he speak and say in another era the eight, maybe yes, but now, as the whole child has tightened so much, he has already to start choosing a little bit more inside, as he did in Tulsa. Although he was second in the World Cup or worse, but that to win, Maris said he would have wanted the single donated. He thinks it was closer, okay? I' ll cover you up. Maybe not secret yet that he' s ready, but if he gets to see the World Cup, he comes out with the fastest reaction of that ending.

44:42 Okay, wow. Well, we could be talking here for two hours and also understanding people' s time. I want to thank Emilio Falla for this time, for this simplicity for sharing his words, his knowledge. We know that Emilió, who has multiple occupations and is also a person who has many followers, many fans throughout Latin America. Something to close Emilio, a message to parents, a message to parents who support their children who sin children, are champions or champions who support him, that this is the most important thing, that they enjoy being happy. There are some children that if some parents sometimes get frustrated that they say that there are some children who are born others that are not made that is, this sport together from all over the world is a lot for persistence. And the other day I just had a super important diner with a school that puts the sport on why to do a sport in any child. And it' s because competing, training, correcting, a lot of things prepares you for in real life, in real life, how to assume a first time that I know a person' s loss, once unemployment, divorce, whatever it is before medium because I talk and tell you why sport is so important to this school. And they told me why competing, assimilating that defeat or that triumph, will teach children to learn, to understand life. What a school it is. It' s a private

46:12 school here that very cristos kids who put as a main sport to the fights and make them children who fight and say because there is in the fight you can win by geniuses, they' re smart. Children who are more physically gifted or constancy and why they make them chopo extemos that sometimes defeat, sometimes the child designs them how to carry it later in real life, the difficult moments that give you life. So the importance of sport, because to me it seems a sport of course, so I feel it is healthy, because it has helped me in everything that I do. Be persistent, be constant to fight for my goals. You' ve got a lot of stuff for him. But when he told me that to be able, so that they know that the world does not end there, that is, when a moment comes, and that life is not easy, that is, life at the end of the day. It is the life of beauty, of being here alive and having and all that we saw every day. Yes, but you also have to know that there are going to be difficult times. It has touched us all and how to carry those moments. So they' ve been little kids since then with the main stuff. So support them, because it is necessary for children to have these experiences and this experience in any sport.

47:15 Emilio fails a glory of bm that made a glory of Latin American and Ecuadorian sport. Thank you for taking part in this episode. Thanks for your time. Don' t forget to share on all your social networks, this podcast, the Alejo Vargas Show BMX Podcast, available on all digital platforms. Thank you, thank you all and I send you a hug. Thank you.